Graduation season is in full swing. I’m pretty sure none of the rousing college commencement speeches will be exhorting students to go forth and be average. The grads will be launched into the workforce where they will be bell-curved, compared, measured, scored, evaluated, and sometimes graded as average. But we need many average or ordinary […]
As we hurtle toward the November elections, every candidate wants to engage women voters. It has nothing to do with popularity (although who doesn’t love that?) but “there are more women than men overall, more women registered to vote, and a higher female turnout rate,” Dianne Bystrom, director of Iowa State University’s Carrie Chapman Catt […]
Perhaps the president of Dartmouth College has finally said what many other university administrators are feeling. Philip Hanlon didn’t mince words when he spoke to a group of student leaders, faculty and alumni earlier this month. He offered a withering critique of his own school, saying that its future “is being hijacked by extreme and […]
Although 34 states have laws on the books requiring voters to show identification to vote, Maine requires no identification at the polls. We need ID to board a plane, cash a check, pick up a package at FedEx, rent a car, check in at the doctor’s office, get a job, get an apartment, or have […]
The latest wealth redistribution plan is picking up speed this election year, complete with the requisite Obamanomics propaganda machine rolling into town. In this case it’s Washington, D.C.-based Americans United for Change bringing in the PR juggernaut on a well-appointed bus. Portland Mayor Mike Brennan and gubernatorial hopeful U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud have jumped on […]
While we’ve all had a good laugh (at least I hope you did) at former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s decrees on 16-ounce sodas, calorie counts and trans fats, there are many other instances of the government’s irrational need to tell everyone else how to live and coerce them into compliance. Some more examples of government […]
As we commemorate Presidents’ Day this week, it’s a good time to take a glimpse of the man George Washington was destined to become by dusting off his Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour In Company and Conversation. Written by our first president as a teenager, the document is still relevant today (although we hope we […]
A Washington Post-ABC poll published Tuesday found that almost half of Americans think Obamacare will result in an overall worse standard of health care in the country. And six in 10 believe it will mean higher overall costs. Seventy-two percent of voters who disapprove of the job President Obama, congressional Democrats and congressional Republicans are […]
Editor’s note appended. As we sit down this week and give thanks for the many blessings of this life, we should also take time to reflect on a Thanksgiving lesson, brought to us courtesy of Governor William Bradford of the Plymouth Colony. Although the Pilgrims landed on that lonely outcropping of Massachusetts shoreland almost 400 […]
Last week, one of Maine’s largest radical left wing groups decided to put the Informed Women’s Network on the map by infiltrating a private event where Gov. Paul LePage was speaking, sending two young apparatchicks (misspelling intended) to make a secret recording of the meeting. One smirked as she slunk out. “Yeah, I had to […]
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